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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

There are so many tips and tricks to successfully run online store. I'm planning to share a new one (or more) out each week as time permits. If you have any tips to share jut drop me an email at akmal@lot.my. Here is the first tips.

For all those who have long been thinking and researching and planning to start an online business but haven't entered the ecommerce world yet, now is the time to do it.

Don't hesitate, stop procrastinating and planning, get started and you'll learn more about your brand and your customers in months than you would do otherwise in years.

The forecasts for ecommerce in 2010 look good. Projections indicate that ecommerce will continue to grow even if the economy hasn’t yet fully recovered from the downturn. This can be attributed to many factors but all of which point to the same conclusion: this is a good time to start a profitable online business. If you’ve got an income opportunity home based business idea, don’t just sit on it – start a profitable online business now!

Make 2010 the year when you actually keep to your resolutions by making resolutions which will bring real, genuine, tangible rewards so you are celebrating your online store's success this time next!

This is not new but I've been receiving several question regarding PayPal in Malaysia. Near the end of 2009, PayPal announced the expansion of its services in Malaysia with the introduction of support for payments in Malaysian ringgit and a new bank withdrawal feature that enables members to transfer money from their PayPal account directly to a Malaysian bank account.

Yes, now we can link our local bank with the PayPal account. As you can see from the snapshot below, taken from the PayPal site, Malaysia is now on the Send. Receive. Withdraw. category.

Meaning, now we can use local bank to receive and make payment via PayPal. Lot.my allows PayPal transaction, thus you can now receive payment directly from your customer either via Credit Card or Direct Bank Transfer. Life is just getting easier huh.. :)

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

This step is the quickest. It just took me 5 seconds to finish it. To signup, please click here.

Make sure you entered all the details. Remember, your email must be valid as all the information will be sent to your email. Once done, just click the Sign-up and start Selling button.Congratulation. You've just created your online store. Wasn't that a breeze? Please remember the important link as shown in the image below. The same information is also sent to your email account.Now, to manage your new store, just click the button Login and Start Selling Now. It will bring you to your admin page.

Setup Account and Store

Now you are in admin page, to enter, just put in your password and click Login.

Once login, for the first time, you can see the basic guide on how to setup your store. You just need to finish all the items to get your store ready.First setup your account details. Just go to Setting > Account. Make sure you put your first name and last name here. In case you want to change your password, please do it here. Else just leave it blank.Then, you need to setup your store. Just go to Setting > Store. Here you could add header, pick theme, put store description and more. Great, now you're one step closer to selling online.

Gather Product Information

If you're planning to open your online store, I guessed you may have this information ready. Just make sure you have all the details of the products like the description, price, model, etc. And make sure you have photos of you product. The more the better as Lot.my allows you to add as many product photos as you want.

Add Product

Once you ready with your product details, just head to the Product tab at the top. Since you're new your product list will be empty.To start add new product, just click the Insert button. There are many tabs and you can choose to fill all the fields or just the required ones (with *)Continue to add all you products and once completed. You can see it available on your online store.

You can also create categories for your product but that is optional.

Check Shipping

Now you need to check the shipping options in Setting > Shipping. As default we set flat rate for the shipping cost. You can always change it as you want. Either it flat rate, per item, weight based or even for free. It all your choice. To enable the option, just click the Edit link.

Check Payment

To check the payment option, just go to Setting > Payment. Same as the shipping, we've created a default payment for new store. It's is Cash. And you always can change it to Bank Transfer, via PayPal or etc. To change just click Edit.

Friday, January 1, 2010

I'm happy to tell you that we've just open Lot.my to everyone. Now anyone who like to open an online store can instantly create one for free by simply by visiting Lot.my and click on the "Create Your Online Store for Free Now!" button (alternatively, just click here.). After you create an account, we will instantly send you an email. We suggest reading the email to get it set up quickly and correctly. And in no time you'll have your online store up and running like a pro.

We also have prepared same brief description on Lot.my. You can start by having a brief tour and the check why you should use Lot.my over any other services. If you know the details of what we offered, you could check the long and growing Features List. We also prepared a demo page for you to play around.

So, why wait, jom start working on you online store and start selling now! Should you have any question, feel free to shoot us an email at tanya@lot.my.

We would like to say goodbye to 2009 and welcoming the new year of 2010. Today is the 1st day of the 2nd decade of the 3rd millennium!

For us 2009 was a very exciting year. We're working day and night to develop the Lot.my. And we hope the 2010 will be more exciting as finally we're going to see Lot.my kicking and functioning! We'll let you know about it on our next post. As for now, enjoy the new 2010 and hope this year will be a great one for all of us!